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262 THE PLAIN OF THE 'CAFFRES, IN THE
this circumstance is, that the man so accosted by the de-
ceased woman, and who appears to have been a porter id
the Brownlow-street Lying-in-Hospital; as soon as he
came home, said he had received a shock, from which he
should never recover, and died in the course of the same
day.
The Plain of the Caffres, in the French Island of
Bourbon, in the Indian Ocean.
Am ong those plains which are in the mountains, the
most remarkable and of which nobody hitherto has takeb
any notice, is that called the Plain of the Caffres, because
a troop of Caffres, the slaves of the inhabitants of the isle,
went and hid themselves there after they had run away from
their masters. From the sea side, one ascends gently for
about seven leagues, to arrive at that plain : there is only
pne road to it, along the river of St. Stephen, which may
also be travelled on horseback. The soil is good, and even
till a league and a half before you come to the plain, and
adorned with large and beautiful trees, the falling leaves
of which afford nourishment for the tortoises which are.
very numerous there. AVe may reckon the height of the
plaih to be two leagues above the horizon ; and it appears
from below quite lost in the clouds. It may be four or
five leagues in compass. The cold is insupportable there,
and a continual fog, which wets as much as rain, hinders
one from seeing ten paces forward. As night comes on,
one sees clearer than in the day ; but then it freezes terri-
bly, and in the morning before sun rises, the plain appears
all frozen. But the most extraordinary thing to be seen
there are certain elevations of earth, cut almost in the
form of pilurs, round and prodigiously high, for they can-
not be lower than the towers of Notre-Dame at Paris.—
They are placed hke a sort of nine pins, and so like one
another,
this circumstance is, that the man so accosted by the de-
ceased woman, and who appears to have been a porter id
the Brownlow-street Lying-in-Hospital; as soon as he
came home, said he had received a shock, from which he
should never recover, and died in the course of the same
day.
The Plain of the Caffres, in the French Island of
Bourbon, in the Indian Ocean.
Am ong those plains which are in the mountains, the
most remarkable and of which nobody hitherto has takeb
any notice, is that called the Plain of the Caffres, because
a troop of Caffres, the slaves of the inhabitants of the isle,
went and hid themselves there after they had run away from
their masters. From the sea side, one ascends gently for
about seven leagues, to arrive at that plain : there is only
pne road to it, along the river of St. Stephen, which may
also be travelled on horseback. The soil is good, and even
till a league and a half before you come to the plain, and
adorned with large and beautiful trees, the falling leaves
of which afford nourishment for the tortoises which are.
very numerous there. AVe may reckon the height of the
plaih to be two leagues above the horizon ; and it appears
from below quite lost in the clouds. It may be four or
five leagues in compass. The cold is insupportable there,
and a continual fog, which wets as much as rain, hinders
one from seeing ten paces forward. As night comes on,
one sees clearer than in the day ; but then it freezes terri-
bly, and in the morning before sun rises, the plain appears
all frozen. But the most extraordinary thing to be seen
there are certain elevations of earth, cut almost in the
form of pilurs, round and prodigiously high, for they can-
not be lower than the towers of Notre-Dame at Paris.—
They are placed hke a sort of nine pins, and so like one
another,